Re: keywords in initdb are case-sensitive?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> In miracee's review of Peter's patch for new -A options in initdb (in
> commitfest app only), it is noted that pg_hba.conf keyword parsing is
> done in a case sensitive manner.  So if you write "Trust" rather than
> "trust", it's not recognized.
>
> This seemed pretty nonsensical to me, and it's not documented, so I came
> up with the trivial attached patch.
>
> Comparisons to user and database names and the like are unchanged and
> thus require matching case.
>
> Thoughts?

We have lots of things that are case-sensitive; I don't particularly
see why this one should be different.

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